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'I heard something of that from Mr. Fielding, she said gently. 'Yes, he said, with a change in his voice to brisk cheerfulness. 'It seemed to me that I ought to go. Our interests there are rather large now. I consulted my fellow-directors, and they agreed with me. The sudden disappearance of the constraint which had marked him surprised Mrs. Willoughby. 'But can you leave London? she asked.
Then with a deferential smile he added: "Mr. Ryder usually arrives on the stroke, sir." The senator gave a nod of acquiescence and, turning on his heel, greeted with a grasp of the hand and affable smile his fellow-directors as they passed in by twos and threes. Senator Roberts was in the world of politics what his friend John Burkett Ryder was in the world of finance a leader of men.
Uncle Jack was so persuaded that his fortune was now to be made, and had, moreover, so great a desire to share the glory of ruining the monster monopoly of the London wharves, that he refused a very large offer to dispose of the property altogether, remained chief shareholder, and removed to London, where he set up his carriage and gave dinners to his fellow-directors.
He had been the recipient of Thanksgiving turkeys for nearly twenty years on the plea that they had been grown on the donor's farm in Westchester county, and he had seen fit to invite his fellow-directors annually to dine off one of them as a modest notice that he was on friendly terms with his aristocratic New York cousin.
I could not possibly refuse, even if I wanted to; it is just what the children have longed for and wished for and " "We are not going to give up the ward; she would have to start her home with other children." The Dominant Trustee announced it flatly. Strangely enough, the faces of his fellow-directors corroborated his assertion.
In January, 1904, R. B. Hale of San Francisco wrote to his fellow-directors of the Merchants' Association, that, in 1915, San Francisco ought to hold an exposition to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. In the financing of the St. Louis Exposition, soon to begin, Mr. Hale found a model for his plan.
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